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The Circus of Death


The circus comes,
Lovers run, 
To frolic the lovely dome 
It’s quite too bad that the adventures they’ve had, 
Simply can’t add up. 
Hah, what a lovely abode. 
 
A secret kept, oh so long 
Smiles shared throughout the chuckling crowd 
Poor young lovers, 
No longer quite so excited. 
 
Those poor children, 
So disillusioned, 
It isn’t quite as nice as it seemed
Is it? 
 
The sweat down chubby faces 
The blood that makes hearts race 
The screams that shatter eardrums 
The tears unmanageable 
Not quite as magical, is it? 
 
Lives quite ruined, 
Endings quite near, 
They started with a happy time… 
How’d they end up here? 
 
To be frank, my dear 
The moral of the story is quite clear 
When something seems too good to be true… 
It is.
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